California is once again fighting in federal court for a Jewish family's right to have a precious Impressionist painting returned to them by a Spanish museum nearly 90 years after it was looted by the Nazis.

The state is also defending its own authority to legally require art and other stolen treasures to be returned to other victims with ties ...Read more

NEW YORK — With less than two months to go in his term, Mayor Eric Adams met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, drawing a contrast with his successor, Zohran Mamdani, who has vowed to direct the NYPD to arrest the PM if he sets foot in New York under his administration.

In an interview with the right-wing Israel Hayom ...Read more

A last-ditch effort to push Mayor Eric Adams and his administration to slow the implementation of new class size caps before Zohran Mamdani takes office has failed.

Over the recent objections of a coalition of education advocates, a trove of compliance documents released Monday showed local education officials did not request that the state ...Read more

Maryland elected officials representing Allegany, Garrett and Washington counties have rejected an invitation to consider breaking away and joining West Virginia.

West Virginia state Sen. Chris Rose last week introduced legislation in his state’s upper chamber, inviting the three rural counties, in addition to 27 others in Virginia, to secede...Read more

After U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested at least 130 people in the Charlotte area over the weekend, Democratic lawmakers representing the region said the arrests amount to racist profiling.

Mecklenburg County Democratic Rep. Carolyn Logan spent her career in law enforcement and said people who do that work are supposed to make people “ feel ...Read more

NEW YORK — An NYPD officer survived getting shot in the face Monday during an early-morning shootout with a gunman suspected of killing his Brooklyn neighbor an hour earlier, police said.

Officer Sharjeel Waris was guarding evidence inside the vestibule of a Brownsville building where the suspect and murder victim lived when the killer ...Read more

Thirty years after Selena Quintanilla’s death, a recently released autopsy report revealed new details about her murder.

In March 1995, the 23-year-old Tejano singer was gunned down inside a motel room in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldívar, who had been accused of embezzling money from Quintanilla.

The...Read more

LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson’s estate has approved a claim of almost $58 million for the father of Ron Goldman.

Fred Goldman won a civil judgment against the former NFL star over the 1994 killing of his son, a friend of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson. Goldman had sought $117 million from the estate of Simpson, who died at his Las ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The U.S. Department of Justice sued California on Monday to block newly passed laws that prohibit law enforcement officials, including federal immigration agents, from wearing masks and that require them to identify themselves.

The laws, passed by the California Legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, came in the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested he could expand U.S. military strikes in Latin America beyond Venezuela to targets on land in Colombia and even Mexico, spooking markets and raising fresh questions about his strategy for the region.

On Monday, Trump said he’d be “proud” to expand strikes that have targeted alleged drug-...Read more

The Trump administration said on Monday it would not comply with California’s new laws banning federal agents from wearing masks and other face coverings when conducting operations in the state, and sued in federal court to overturn its “No secret police” and “No vigilantes” acts.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools returned to class Monday after Border Patrol agents descended on the region for a weekend of arrests, with no clear sign about when the activity might end.

Agents wearing green and brown uniforms with masks covering their faces spread out across Charlotte and area towns, raising fear in the ...Read more

NEW YORK — For the first time, newly available data confirmed Monday what many have long suspected: New York City is failing to intervene before students become involved with the court system, and not doing enough to help them get back on track once in the city’s care.

Some 1,040 young people were enrolled in Passages Academy, the ...Read more

Republican lawmakers, who control North Carolina’s purse strings, declined to return Monday to take action on Medicaid cuts.

But medical providers showed up at the General Assembly to plead for relief, with several shedding tears as they described the effects of the cuts on employees, children and families.

They spoke at an unofficial ...Read more

NEW YORK — Three people have been arrested in a plot to bribe a federal juror in the upcoming case of Goran Gogic, a former heavyweight boxer accused of playing a key role in a massive international cocaine trafficking ring, prosecutors revealed.

The trial, set to start in Brooklyn Federal Court on Monday, was put on hold, with the jury ...Read more

A neo-Nazi leader who wrote a manifesto called the “Haters Handbook” pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Monday to spearheading a bizarre murder plot to dress as Santa and give poison candy to minority children on New Year’s Eve.

Michael Chkhikvishvili, 22, a citizen of Georgia, ran the Russian and Ukrainian “Maniac Murder Cult” hate group and...Read more

Charlotte city leaders pledged Monday to look for short-term money for groups helping people affected by U.S. Border Patrol’s operations in the city.

A Charlotte City Council committee voted unanimously to direct City Manager Marcus Jones to collaborate with Mecklenburg County to find money in the next week. The committee also unanimously ...Read more

A manhunt was underway on Friday for a man who ransacked the New Jersey federal prosecutor’s office building after being denied a meeting with acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba, according to reports.

The suspect showed up outside the Newark office on Wednesday evening, but he was barred entry by security because he had a bat with him, sources ...Read more

NEW YORK — An NYPD cop was shot and wounded in the face early Monday by a gunman who had just murdered a Brooklyn neighbor, police said

Officers responding to a 5:57 a.m. 911 found 41-year-old Leroy Wallace dead from a gunshot wound to the chest on the sidewalk near Hegeman Avenue and Thomas S. Boyland Street in Brownsville, cops said. ...Read more